Raul Riera
Founder at Odonto.me
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarRaul Riera is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 16 years of experience based in Ottawa, currently Senior Engineering Manager at Phantom and the founder and application architect of Odonto.me. He blends hands‑on backend and mobile expertise — contributions to the popular Strapi headless CMS (database connection options, GraphQL improvements) sit alongside custom Swift UI work on the TextFieldEffects library. His career includes senior engineering and management roles at Shopify and Wealthsimple as well as founding multiple startups, giving him deep product and brand sensibilities. An active open‑source contributor, he moves comfortably between database and API design and pixel‑level UX polish. Known for pairing entrepreneurial grit with pragmatic engineering, he excels at shipping customer-facing features while evolving scalable backend systems.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish, English
Github Skills (26)
animations10
wp-graphql10
content-management-system10
javascript10
typescript310
ios10
node-js10
animation10
typescript10
typescript210
javascripts10
api10
front-end-development10
content-management10
wordpress-graphql10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
raulriera/TextFieldEffects
Jan 2015 - Jan 2023
Custom UITextFields effects inspired by Codrops, built using Swift
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 162 commits in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Raul primarily worked on the `TextFieldEffects` repository, focusing on creating and implementing custom `UITextField` effects using Swift. Their contributions include initial implementations of various effects, such as "Kaede", "Hoshi", "Jiro", "Isao", "Yoko", "Minoru", "Madoka", and updates for the "Akira" effect. They also worked on features like LTR language support and addressed issues related to pre-populated data, the text field's alpha, and a iOS 11 bug.
textfieldanimationswiftiosswiftui
strapi/strapi
May 2018 - May 2018
🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable, and developer-first.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 27 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Raul primarily contributed to the Strapi project by enhancing the backend functionality. Their work involved adding options for database connections within strapi-mongoose, improving syntax, and updating the content type builder. Additionally, they merged branches and made modifications to the GraphQL service, introducing features such as amount limiting and polymorphic union types while modifying associated logic. This demonstrates a focus on core framework improvements and data handling.
cmsdashboardcontent-management-systemheadlessjavascript
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